Jeremiah 3:17
3:17 At that time the city of Jerusalem
will be called the
Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the
Lord’s name.
They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts.
Jeremiah 7:24
7:24 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.
Genesis 6:5
6:5 But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Romans 1:21-24
1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts
were darkened.
1:22 Although they claimed
to be wise, they became fools
1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings
or birds or four-footed animals
or reptiles.
1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
Ephesians 2:3
2:3 among whom
all of us
also
formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath
even as the rest…
Ephesians 4:17-19
Live in Holiness
4:17 So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
4:19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.